alma
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,008
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
alma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Supuesta esencia inmaterial de una persona o de un animal. Pronounced [ˈalma]. It ranks #1,008 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with am and amo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalma] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alma is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalma]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,008 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for alma, with forms such as "alam", "allma", and "almma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "am", "amo", "Ana", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alma, spelled A-L-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Supuesta esencia inmaterial de una persona o de un animal.
- 2Función del sistema nervioso central de los animales y del hombre, objeto de estudio de la psicología.
- 3Hilo de seda en el que se retorcían las láminas de oro y plata de los hilos entorchados que servían para la trama de los tapices más ricos y lujosos.
- 4Centro de una cosa o centro de un sistema.
- 5Sustancia metafísica eterna que contempla la esencia de una persona como sus pensamientos, emociones y voluntad.
- 6La vida de una persona.
- 7Emociones, sentimientos de una persona, especialmente del amor y la bondad.
- 8En un perfil metálico, pieza central que une a las alas de forma perpendicular.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alam,allma,almma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alma
Misspelling Variants of "alma"
Frequency rank: #1,008 in Spanish
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